MY STORY AS AN ORPHAN

I became an orphan at a very tender age after my mum and dad died of fatal accident. Very little girl of 5years, I barely new little then. But luckily my aunty picked me after the burial to stay with her and her husband in Lagos from  Port Harcourt where we were staying.

My auntie was nice to me and so was the husband at the initial time. As I grew up to a girl from the age of 13, with body developments as a woman, the husband began to pick interest in me. By this time, my aunty’s three kids were all in the university, so it was only 3 of us. Gradually, my aunty’s husband began to make advances at me whenever my auntie is not around, he will touch my breast and bum. Atimes, when my auntie is not around, if am taking my bathe he would want to join me in the shower. I keep telling him to live me alone, but he will threaten to kick me out if I refuse his advances or tell my auntie.

The harassment continued to the extent that if I go to school, my uncle will leave his work and come and pick me from school around 12 that he wants me to do something at home. I will try so much to resist but what can a small orphan girl like me do. He will drag me as I hesitate, and take me home. Your guess is mine what will happened as he will rape me repeatedly and leave me to groan in pain with an instruction that I should clean myself and pretend nothing happened when my aunty returns.

Well, that clandestine and discrete activity eventually resulted in pregnancy. My aunty had to press me to know who impregnated me, when I opened up, that it was the husband, she could not take it and kicked me out to my fate. I had no where to go until one Samaritan woman in my school who is one of my teachers offered to allow me to stay and have my babe. I stayed and had the babe, and after then decided to fight for my future.

Obviousy the only way to survive was through prostitution as I had no one else on earth so as to raise my son. I went into prostitution full time, managed to get a place for me and my son after one year I had my babe.

Since then I have remained a prostitute. I have managed to take my son through  secondary school now, but am really tired and want a new life. I don’t know where to start.

Please advice me

Nancy